When my sister moved to Marion Junction, Alabama, I found myself most interested in the graveyards. Tiny, tiny town with three churches & huge old graveyards. There is an ARP church with many of the same names that I had seen in South Carolina & Tennessee graveyards. Many of my husband's forebears followed their church leaders to Tipton County, Tennessee, and are buried in the Salem ARP graveyard in Tennessee. A more interesting question to me is WHY they up-stakes & moved in the first place. Here's another I want some illumination about: My ggf & ggm (Garrison & Maria Hardy Linn) as well as other members of the extended family moved about 1840 from OPD to Cass County, Georgia, where they died within 5-7 years. One of their sons (Julius Weston) went to the Medical College of Georgia, where he graduated in 1859. By 1860, he had moved to Marshall County, Alabama. His mother's relatives & his older brother were still in Cass County, Georgia. His first wife was born & raised in Alabama. What drew his parents to Cass? What drew him to Marshall County, Alabama? Is there any explanation more than the urge to move west? They were neither farmers nor gold miners.